... plays in general! (I am in clinic and on call; humour me. Email alerts of responses will distract me from the horrors of A&E and IBS clinic. It's for HUMANITY!)

I, weirdly, enjoy reading plays. Tom Stoppard is my god. Funny story, the seller I always chat to in Waterstones told me I'd hate him. Imagine that a total stranger read me so wrong. However, I haven't read many. First on my list is The Lady's Not For Burning (thanks, Tam Lin), but after that I am as one lost. What are the world's must-read plays? What are your favourites?

Little point in telling me to go see plays, though. I think the Celtic Tiger ate all the saints and scholars. This is a culture-free zone.

Will discuss all comments (if any, that is) twenty six hours from now when I leave work. \o/

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT REC. I have been laughing and laughing all by myself in bed and that's rare. I mean, I find things funny often, but I'm LAUGHING OUT LOUD TO MYSELF.

so the moral of the storyis the way to a woman's soul is through her nipplesi always suspected this but now I know for sure

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I guess this is what happens when you kill all the people who created the worldand then take over in their placethere is no transition meetingno one tells you these thingsbut yeah

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totally claims he was at the battlebut in reality he just ate some mushrooms he foundand spent several hours yelling epithets at a tree

I want to send this guy a marriage proposal, I am totally serious.

I've read Hamlet and Macbeth. They both deserved it. Hamlet is one whiny motherfucker. I wrote an essay on how he was a misogynist little twit who couldn't accept that his mother was a sexual being in her own right. I may have sided with Claudius. So yeah, empathy at naught. :P

I've read all Oscar Wilde's, but it was years ago. They're all a joy (Lady Windermere's Fan perhaps less, and purposefully, so). Of the four Stoppard plays I've read Ros and Guil is my least favourite, although it's obviously a work of genius.

I did it at A level and really enjoyed it! Plus if you're interested in that sort of thing, it was made into a movie in 2005 (I think?). Interesting to read the play and watch the movie and think about the differences.

Ugh yes, the original Streetcar film is both hilarious and genuinely brilliant. (Although, if you were going to see a Williams play on film, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is one of my favourite movies pretty much ever.)

Cork boy. :P Like I said, they are staging Shakespeare, but we don't get much down here. Everything international - and there's not much of that - goes to Dublin. You can name modern successful creative Irish on one hand.